Performances + Events
Performances + Events
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NEC Festival: Chamber Music + Sonatas – Schuller and the Spirit of Collaboration
Jordan Hall
This special evening of chamber music looks at Gunther Schuller the composer, through his works, the composers who influenced him, and composers who drew inspiration from him. In the collaborative spirit of Schuller, students and faculty from multiple departments share the same stage in performances that include three works by Schuller – including the third movement of his Piano Trio
NEC Baroque Orchestra: Telemann
Brown Hall
Led by director Guy Fishman, NEC's Baroque Orchestra is part of The Pratt Early Music Program at New England Conservatory, established by Harold I. Pratt and Frances G. Pratt, which seeks to invite and engage the NEC community with performers and scholars in the Historically Informed Per…
Laurie Smukler Chamber Music Master Class
Pierce Hall
Laurie Smukler presents a master class featuring ensembles from the NEC Chamber Music program. Laurie Smukler began her studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music and started playing as a soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra at 14. She earned her BM from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Ivan Galamian; other Juilliard faculty who have had a powerful influence on her developme…
Natasha Brofsky Chamber Music Master Class
Pierce Hall
Natasha Brofsky presents a master class featuring ensembles from the NEC Chamber Music program. Natasha Brofsky is cellist of the Naumburg Award-winning Peabody Trio, which has performed on leading chamber music series throughout the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.. The trio has been heard on numerous radio broadcasts, and has recorded on the New World, CRI, and Artek labels. She has performe…
Seth Knopp Chamber Music Master Class
Pierce Hall
Seth Knopp presents a master class featuring ensembles from the NEC Chamber Music program. Seth Knopp, piano (Putney, VT), was a founding member of the award-winning Peabody Trio, winner of the 1989 Naumburg Award and the Peabody Institute’s Ensemble-in-Residence from 1987-2017. After making its Alice Tully Hall debut in 1990, the trio performed on the most important cham…
NEC Festival: Contemporary Musical Arts Today – A Global Vision Realized
Jordan Hall
The Contemporary Musical Arts program will celebrate Gunther Schuller’s 100th birthday with a concert focusing on how his daringly inclusive musical and educational vision transformed NEC into a global artistic musical scene. Schuller's legacy, carried forward from the 1970s through the early 2000s by our emeritus chair,
Tuesday Night New Music 4
Williams Hall
The newest works from the next generation of composers. Tuesday Night New Music, a student-run, faculty-supervised concert series, was founded in the early 90s by Lee Hyla. It offers audiences the opportunity to hear the music of current New England Conservatory composition students, performed by their peers. This year the series is directed …
NEC Festival: NEC Symphony + David Loebel – Schuller and Stravinsky’s Firebird
Jordan Hall
Among Gunther Schuller’s many important contributions to our musical life was his passionate advocacy of American music of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Composers of that era whom he championed include Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, John Knowles Paine, and one of his predecessors as the leader of NEC, George Whitefield Chadwick.
NEC Festival: Jazz Without Borders – Schuller’s Bold Experiment at NEC
Jordan Hall
The NEC Jazz Orchestra reflects on the Gunther Schuller’s role in creating the first fully accredited jazz studies program in a conservatory, performing Schuller’s Jumpin’ in the Future, Ellington’s Reminiscing in Tempo, George Russell’s All About Rosie, and
NEC Opera: Jonathan Dove’s “Flight”
Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
Jonathan Dove’s Flight lands at NEC with four nights of brilliant, high-energy opera that turns the chaos of an airport delay into an unforgettable comedy. Filled with wit, heart, and soaring music, this production brings to life one of the most captivating contemporary operas of our time.
